Mr. and Mrs. Raybon Humphryes of Gordo, Ala., announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Jenny Lynn Humphryes of Greenwood, to David Patrick Gaines of Gaithersburg, Md., son of Mr. Marion Touliman Gaines III of Kensington, Md., and the late Mrs. Gaines.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Allen Reynolds of Gordo and the late Mr. and Mrs. Rubin B. Humphryes of Northport, Ala.
The prospective bridegroom is the grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pitt of Gaithersburg, Md., and the late Mr. and Mrs. Marion Toulmin Gaines Jr. of Mobile, Ala.
The bride-elect is a graduate of Gordo High School and the University of Alabama, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a double minor in English and history.
She is the managing editor of the Greenwood Commonwealth.
The prospective bridegroom is a graduate of Albert Einstein High School in Kensington, Md.
He is a logistics management specialist for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C.
The couple will exchange vows at 4 p.m. Dec. 5, 2009, at the Episcopal Church of the Nativity in Greenwood.
The Revs. Bernard Wiggins and Granville Wiggins will officiate at the ceremony.